[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#611861: Bug#611861: virtualbox-ose: general protection fault after g_abExecMemory on a xen domU

Frank Mehnert frank.mehnert at oracle.com
Thu Feb 3 09:14:30 UTC 2011


Timo,

On Thursday 03 February 2011 10:00:15 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com> writes:
> > Running VirtualBox in DomU or in Dom0 is not supported.
> 
> Ok I can understand that (thanks for the speedy reply btw). Could you
> consider adding something like
> 
> --- virtualbox-ose.orig 2011-02-03 10:58:53.000000000 +0200
> +++ virtualbox-ose      2011-02-03 10:57:44.000000000 +0200
> @@ -54,7 +54,13 @@
>  start()
>  {
>         log_begin_msg "Starting VirtualBox kernel modules"
> -
> +
> +       if [ -d /proc/xen ]; then
> +           log_failure_msg "Running virtualbox under xen is not supported"
> +           log_end_msg 1
> +           return 1
> +       fi
> +
>         if ! running vboxdrv; then
>                 # HACK: disable the hardware performance counter framework
>                 if [ -e /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid ]; then
> 
> to the init.d script? This way users would get an error message
> instead of a system crash.

Sure, will do. Will this work for both DomU and Dom0?

Kind regards,

Frank
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